Friday, May 21, 2010

Dial “L” for Listverse

Pop culture sponge and esteemed mystery novelist Bill Crider has a link to an interesting list of “Top 10 Worst Movie Sequels”…but what caught my eye was a pair of equally intriguing lineups at the Listverse website:

This one is called “10 Films You Haven’t Seen But Should”—though in my case, that title needs to be changed to “9 Films” because I have seen Le mari de la coiffeuse (1990; aka The Hairdresser’s Husband).(For the record, I didn’t care for it.)I have heard good things about a few of the other features tabbed in the tally, notably The Quiet Earth (1985).

2 comments:

I agree with you. When you talk to the average Joe about Hitchcock they say, "Oh I love Rear Window, Notorious and The Birds." Its funny to see the confused faces when you mention how much you like "Strangers on a Train" or "Shadow of a Doubt" and God forbid if you mention the English movies!

I saw a really interesting one of Hitchcock's called "Rich and Strange" (1931). Its actually not too much of a mystery. Its a pretty typical early 30's movie where people go from poor to rich and then start cheating on their spouse, but the end has a really interesting twist. I suggest it if you haven't seen it :)